ABOUT

Cassia Powell is an artist-researcher currently located in Squamish, Musqueam, and Tsleil-Waututh territories (Vancouver, BC). Their practice uses queer and gender theory to question expectancies of care through gendered labour, while weaving in notions of memory, futurity, and technoculture. Often using surreal, personal, and speculative narative-driven subject matter, Cassia’s work creates its own personalized mythology. These areas of inquiry are explored through a multi-disciplinary practice that includes drawing, painting, quiltmaking, and sculpture, as well as writing, publishing, and curation.

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Cassia is an MFA candidate in Visual Arts at the University of British Columbia, and a BFA Visual Arts graduate from the University of Victoria. They are a co-founder of the Dirty Dishes Collective and are on the Board of Directors for Access Gallery.